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The need for integration of reading, critical thinking and academic reading skills
Title The need for integration of reading, critical thinking and academic reading skills Subtitle a quantitative analysis of Slovak undergraduates' reading performance Author info Jana Javorčíková ... [et al.] Author Javorčíková Jana 1974- (60%) UMBFF06 - Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky
Co-authors Badinská Mária 1955- (30%) UMBPO03 - Katedra medzinárodných vzťahov a diplomacie
Ližbetinová Lenka (5%)
Brett David (5%)
Source document Journal of Language and Cultural Education. Vol. 9, no. 1 (2021), pp. 12-29. - S. l. : De Gruyter Open, 2019 Keywords kritické čítanie - critical reading akademické čítanie čitatelia - readers - librarian readers Language English Country Slovak Republic Annotation Based on recent research (Alderson, 2005; Khalifa and Weir, 2009), this study focuses on three areas of reading comprehension necessary for a successful academic career: general L2 EFL reading skills, more specific academic reading skills and critical thinking and reading. The study presents an analysis of quantitative research conducted in 2020, based on a sample of Slovak undergraduate students reading an academic text in English as L2 in EFL CLIL-formatted classes in humanities. The respondents’ general reading skills were analysed in the context of their critical reading skills and academic preparedness. When tested for general reading skills, respondents were asked to identify implicit and explicit information and the gist of the text. Academic abilities were tested via the ability to identify the attributes of an academic text, such as the system of references, rational and logical language and cause-effect type of argumentation, which indicated the author and genre of the text. In order to evaluate participants’ critical skills with a focus on the social aspects of the text, respondents were asked to identify the importance of the text for themselves and for their community and life. The participants’ mean scores and differences in their performances on each task type were compared using descriptive statistics, and multiple analysis of variance. The results suggest that the general reading skills of university undergraduates in Slovakia are adequate, however, more difficulty was encountered with implicit, rather than explicit, tasks. Students also need to improve their critical reading skills and reading for academic purposes. The research outcomes highlight the need to hone the education of future linguists to the new needs of a more text-based society. URL Link na plný text Public work category ADN No. of Archival Copy 51106 Repercussion category ŠTULAJTEROVÁ, Alena. An introduction to language studies. 3rd extended and modified ed. Banská Bystrica : Vydavateľstvo Univerzity Mateja Bela - Belianum, 2022. 211 p. ISBN 978-80-557-1940-5.
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